Shloka 32

Devanagari script

ततः परं समा नाम दृश्यते लोकसंस्थिति: । चतुरस््र॑ महाराज त्रयस्त्रिंशत्‌ तु मण्डलम्‌,उसके बाद समानामवाली लोगोंकी बस्ती देखी जाती है। महाराज! वह चौकोर बसी हुई है। उसमें तैंतीस मण्डल हैं

Transliteration

tataḥ paraṃ samā nāma dṛśyate lokasaṃsthitiḥ | caturasraṃ mahārāja trayastriṃśat tu maṇḍalam |

Translation

ఆ తరువాత ‘సమా’ అనే ప్రజావాసస్థితి దర్శనమిస్తుంది. మహారాజా! అది చతురస్రంగా నిర్మితమై ఉంది; అందులో ముప్పైమూడు మండలాలు ఉన్నాయి.

Word by Word

ततःthen/from there

परम्further/afterwards

समाSamā (name of a place/settlement)

नामby name/namely

दृश्यतेis seen/appears

लोकसंस्थितिःsettlement/arrangement of people

चतुरस्रम्four-sided/square

महाराजO great king

त्रयस्त्रिंशत्thirty-three

तुbut/indeed

मण्डलम्circle/region/division

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Mahārāja (Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

Samā (a named settlement/people)

Maṇḍala (districts/divisions)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores an ideal of order: human habitation and governance are envisioned as structured (square-planned) and administratively divided (into maṇḍalas). This sense of measured arrangement contrasts with the disorder of war, implying that righteous rule values clarity, organization, and intelligible social structure.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya continues a descriptive account, reporting to the king what is ‘seen’—a settlement called Samā, square in layout, containing thirty-three territorial divisions (maṇḍalas).